"Jorun!"
After everyone left for their daily routine, Elina moved along with Lith to a rocking chair. During the morning he had to pleasure to discover that in the new world the daily chores like washing the dishes or cleaning the floors were all performed using magic.
From her rocking chair, Elina would simply twirl her index and medium finger while reciting "Brezza!" to generate up to three small whirlwinds that she would move all around the house to collect and get rid of the dust.
Whenever someone would dirty the floor with earth or mud, a flick of the wrist and a "Magna!" would send them back through the same door they were brought in.
Lith was delighted discovering how common the use of magic was. Everyone in the family, even the younger ones, would use magic to make their life easier.
When bedtime arrived, Lith was dying to try some magic. He had waited so long for his hands and feet to be finally free.
Elina fell asleep almost instantly, yet Lith was impatient enough to have the impression of having waited for hours.
After a full day of thinking, he had decided to try only air magic first until he was confident enough in his magic control abilities.
Fire was just too dangerous for a novice, while water and light would easily wake up his mother. He could not spot any dirt to control in the dim light of the room, and was too afraid to mess up with darkness magic until he got a better understanding of it.
So, he twirled his little arm and said: "Eaa." Nothing happened.
Lith tried and failed countless times before giving up. He did not know how long his baby body would have lasted until falling asleep, so he stopped despairing and started thinking.
Magic was common, whenever he heard for the first time an elemental magic word, something inside him had clicked, like creating a connection with the elemental energy.
Those were all good news, but he still couldn't make head or tails why he was always failing. He never expected succeeding at the first try, but he had thought that something would have manifested.
A random tiny gust of wind, a magic spark, anything would do.
So, he started thinking back to when the healer had filled him with power. That feeling was not new to him, but he never experienced it so intense.
Lith searched his memory until he found the answer. It was the same sensation that he had when he started practicing aikido, while learning the basic breathing technique.
"Well, I have nothing to lose. Let's give it a try."
Lith breathed in through his diaphragm, the anus relaxed, to get the world energy in.
Then he would contract the anus, holding the breath for some seconds to let the energy settle in before breathing out relaxing his whole body.
Back on Earth, he had always thought that the intoxicating feeling he experienced during his first days of practice was just some kind of placebo effect.
His naïve young mind deluding itself that the weak could miraculously become strong just believing and practicing in all that Ki/internal energy nonsense.
But what if he later stopped experiencing that sensation only because his native world energy was just too thin?
After some time, Lith started to feel a tingle all around his body, and then the energy seemed to move and condense inside his solar plexus.
The more he performed the breathing technique, more clearly he could sense the energy getting more stable.
In his old videogames, mana was always blue. So, he visualized a blue sphere settling in inside his solar plexus.
After a while, Lith felt brimming with power. After holding his breath one last time, he twirled his little arm before commanding: "Eaaa!"
The wind generated barely tweaked his mother's hair, while he had aimed for the blanket.
Yet he could not stop grinning.
"This is really a great start!"